MIAMI, FL—August 31, 2011 – A Florida boater was hospitalized with critical injuries sustained in a recent boating accident that occurred in the St. John’s River in Jacksonville. According to information provided by News4Jax, investigators from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) believed the 66-year-old accident victim was…
MIAMI, FL—A 42-foot vessel overturned on the Homosassa River in North Florida on August 21, killing one person and leaving nine additional accident victims injured. According to information provided by Tampa Bay Online, the violent boat crash occurred in Citrus County and is being investigated by authorities from the Florida Fish…
MIAMI, FL— August 18, 2011 – In yet another case of horror on the high seas, a 19-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl during a vacation aboard a Carnival cruise ship in March. According to information provided by Alabama Live, Dylan Cole Bloodsworth, of Mississippi, pleaded guilty…
MIAMI, FL— August 11, 2011 – A Delaware man and his 11-year-old son were hospitalized with severe injuries in Miami after they became involved in a violent boating accident less than ten miles south of Key Largo. According to information provided by the Key West Citizen, officials from the U.S.…
MIAMI, FL— August 10, 2011 – Four people, including a child, were occupying a boat that crashed into the sands of a Navarre beach and flipped over on the night of August 7. According to information provided by NWF Daily News, authorities from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission…
MIAMI, FL— August 4, 2011 – Accident investigators from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have launched a probe into a recreational boating accident that left a Pinellas County teen hospitalized with critical injuries. According to WTSP 10 News, the young accident victim, who was a passenger on…
MIAMI, FL— August 2, 2011- Less than a month after an overcrowded riverboat capsized on the Volga River in Russia, resulting in the deaths of 122 passengers, tragedy struck aboard a second river cruise ship. According to information provided by the New York Times, nine fatalities were reported on July…
MIAMI, FL—July 28, 2011 – A Boynton Beach boat operator was killed in a violent boating accident in upstate New York on June 23. The boat crash, which left two addition accident victims injured, occurred on Lake Seneca in close proximity to Watkins Glen, according to information provided by the…
MIAMI, FL—July 27, 2011 – Authorities from the U.S. Coast Guard on July 23, 2011 called off the search for a California man who was reported missing from a cruise ship less than one day before. According to information provided by 10News, Fallbrook resident Blake Kepley, 20, was traveling in…
MIAMI, FL—July 26, 2011 – Pittsburgh prosecutors offered a plea agreement on July 20, 2011 to a 72-year-old man who boarded a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with the intention of engaging in illicit sexual activity with children in 2009. According to information provided by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, prosecutors evidently offered…